Northern House School

Below is a download of the agreed Northern House School Term and Holiday Dates for 2012-2013
 
Term and holiday dates 2012-2013 (4)

This morning Northern House Schools new teaching facilities were officially opened by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Local Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon Nicola Blackwood invited Mr Cameron to open the new building at Northern House School Nicola is a Governor at the school.
The Prime Minister took a tour of the school as well [...]

[ 21 Jun 12 to 25 Jun 12. ] Festival of Voices has moved from 18th to 21st June.

Choir sings at Dorchester Abbey

Afternoon and evening event, taking yr 5s and 6s who are in the choir.

Northern House Academy Consultation Process has been featured in the Oxford Times please follow this link to view the article 

Zachary (Target) and Faye (Diamond) Weekly Award Winners 5th March 2012

On Friday 2nd March at the end of the day we had a special moment. The keys to the new build were handed over – we now have ownership!
There is still some landscaping to be finished but we are nearly there.
Our next task is to fit the classrooms out with new furniture and fittings.
We will [...]

Dear Parents and Carers,
At the Northern House School Governors meeting last night, a resolution was passed to apply formally to the Secretary of State to allow our School to convert to an Academy. The Governors had to agree that the School should do this and I am pleased to say there was unanimous agreement amongst [...]

James (Target) and Harvey (Diamond) Weekly Award Winners 27th February 2012

On February 7th 2012 We went to St Gregory the Great Secondary school in Cowley. We dressed in proper football kit and played a football tournament against 3 other mainstream schools! We had a great time and came 3rd!
 

The topic for this term for Years 5 and 6 is Rumble in the Jungle and we have been studying rainforests.  To help us with our topic we visited The Living Rainforest near Newbury.
Mrs Ashleys class created a play for the school assembly.  The play was based on the story of The Great Kapok Tree [...]

Upper Key Stage 2 have enjoyed learning about the life and work of the french painter Henri Rousseau. Using their computer skills they designed 5 slides depicting a jungle scene in the style of Rousseau. Different shape holes were cut into these pictures and layered onto card to create a 3D image.

Cameron (Target) and Bradley (Diamond) Weekly Award Winners 30th January 2012

Leroy Anderson
In a closely fought contest, Leroy Anderson’s amusing musical piece ‘The Typewriter’ beat off a strong challenge from Beethoven’s piano solo ‘Fur Elise’.
Children at Northern House voted for their favourite piece of music played at assemblies this term. Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’ was placed fourth, while Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ came in [...]

Jack (Target) and Kamran (Diamond) Weekly Award Winners 23rd January 2012